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Combined Effects Of Aerobic Exercise And 40-Hz Light Flicker Exposure On Early Cognitive Impairments In Alzheimer’S Disease Of 3×Tg Mice, Sang-Seo Park, Hye-Sang Park, Change-Ju Kim, Seung-Soo Baek, Song-Young Park, Cody Anderson, Myung-Ki Kim, Ik-Ryeul Park, Tae-Woon Kim
Combined Effects Of Aerobic Exercise And 40-Hz Light Flicker Exposure On Early Cognitive Impairments In Alzheimer’S Disease Of 3×Tg Mice, Sang-Seo Park, Hye-Sang Park, Change-Ju Kim, Seung-Soo Baek, Song-Young Park, Cody Anderson, Myung-Ki Kim, Ik-Ryeul Park, Tae-Woon Kim
Health and Kinesiology Faculty Publications
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive degenerative brain disease and the primary cause of dementia. At an early stage, AD is generally characterized by short-term memory impairment, owing to dysfunctions of the cortex and hippocampus. We previously reported that a combination of exercise and 40-Hz light flickering can protect against AD-related neuroinflammation, gamma oscillations, reduction in Aβ, and cognitive decline. Therefore, we sought to extend our previous findings to the 5-mo-old 3×Tg-AD mouse model to examine whether the same favorable effects occur in earlier stages of cognitive dysfunction. We investigated the effects of 12 wk of exercise combined with 40-Hz …
Tracing The Landscape: Re-Enchantment, Play, And Spirituality In Parkour, Brett D. Potter
Tracing The Landscape: Re-Enchantment, Play, And Spirituality In Parkour, Brett D. Potter
Publications and Scholarship
Parkour, along with “free-running”, is a relatively new but increasingly ubiquitous sport with possibilities for new configurations of ecology and spirituality in global urban contexts. Parkour differs significantly from traditional sports in its use of existing urban topography including walls, fences, and rooftops as an obstacle course/playground to be creatively navigated. Both parkour and “free-running”, in their haptic, intuitive exploration of the environment retrieve an enchanted notion of place with analogues in the religious language of pilgrimage. The parkour practitioner or traceur/traceuse exemplifies what Michael Atkinson terms “human reclamation”—a reclaiming of the body in space, and of the urban environment …
Preliminary Efficacy And Feasibility Of Embedding High Intensity Interval Training Into The School Day: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, S. A. Costigan, N. Eather, R. C. Plotnikoff, Dennis Taaffe, E. Pollock, S. G. Kennedy, D. R. Lubans
Preliminary Efficacy And Feasibility Of Embedding High Intensity Interval Training Into The School Day: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, S. A. Costigan, N. Eather, R. C. Plotnikoff, Dennis Taaffe, E. Pollock, S. G. Kennedy, D. R. Lubans
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Current physical activity and fitness levels among adolescents are low, increasing the risk of chronic disease. Although the efficacy of high intensity interval training (HIIT) for improving metabolic health is now well established, it is not known if this type of activity can be effective to improve adolescent health. The primary aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of embedding HIIT into the school day. A 3-arm pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted in one secondary school in Newcastle, Australia. Participants (n = 65; mean age = 15.8(0.6) years) were randomized into one of three conditions: …